29 & 30 SEPTEMBER 2020 - VIRTUAL EVENT SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES MAJOR GENERAL JÖRG SEE Deputy Assistant Secrety General, Defence Policy and Planning Division, NATO International Military Staff Jörg See was appointed to the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO HQ, in May 2019. He first gained international experience as Chief, Operations and Missions Section in the German Military Representation to NATO/EU, and operational experience in Kosovo where he served as Military Assistant to the Commander KFOR and as CJ 35 SO Plans for the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Kabul. In 2010, he served as Deputy Senior Military Assistant to the Federal Minister of Defence (FmoD) in Berlin, before being appointed Chief of Branch, Military Personnel Development in FmoD Bonn. Other appointments include, inter alia, Commander of Armoured Brigade 12, and Chief of NATO Policy, Directorate General for Security and Defence Policy in FmoD Berlin. He holds a Masters degree in political sciences from Hamburg University, has completed a General Staff Officer Course in Hamburg as well as an advanced Command and Staff Course in Shrivenham, UK. Jörg See holds the rank of Major General Dipl.-Pol in the German Armed Forces. He is married and has 2 sons. MR. HEINRICH RENTMEISTER Head of Public Sector Palantir Technologies Inc. Heinrich Rentmeister holds a Master degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Bonn. He started his career in the German Ministry of Defence as Head of the Minister's Office and co- leading the Department for Planning and Strategy. After 15 years as a consultant and Partner and Managing Director at McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group he joined Palantir in April 2019. REAR ADMIRAL JÜRGEN EHLE Senior Military Adviser to the Managing Director for CSDP and Crisis Response, EEAS Rear Admiral Ehle joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate in 1976. After training as a naval officer, he completed a pedagogy degree (minor in law) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1977 to 1980. Following his training as a helicopter pilot in the USA and Germany (1980–1983), he was an operational pilot and training officer. This was followed by various assignments in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. From 1996 to 1997, Rear Admiral Ehle took the US Admiralty staff training in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, studying at the US Naval War College. In 1997 and 1998, he was entrusted with the command and coordination of the Naval Air Forces of the German Navy, before he became a commodore of the Naval Aviation Squadron 3 “Graf Zeppelin” in Nordholz. Rear Admiral Ehle moved to NATO headquarters in Brussels in 2002. There, he was initially Deputy Chief of Staff and Branch Head Transformation at the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Representative Europe (SACTREPEUR). This was followed by a further assignment at NATO HQ as German Military Representative, Branch Chief Military Policy and Strategy. In 2007, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin, initially as Branch Chief Europe and Common Security and Defence Policy and later (2012) as Branch Head, Military Policy and Operations Division. In 2012, his career took him back to Brussels, as Deputy German Military Representative to NATO and EU. From 2013 to 2015, Jürgen Ehle was Chairman of the European Union Military Committee Working Group in Brussels, and in 2015, he became Senior Political Military Advisor at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU. Since 2019 he has been Senior Military Advisor to Managing Director for CSDP and Crisis Response at the European External Action Service (EEAS). LIEUTENANT GENERAL (RET.) JAN BROEKS Former Deputy General NATO International Military Staff Lieutenant General (Ret.) Jan Broeks is a strategic expert on transformation- and change management, leadership, defence, security, logistics and emerging technologies. He is currently Deputy Chairperson of the Permanent Committee on Peace & Security, Advisory Council on International Affairs. His is also Member of the Supervisory Board of the Clingendael Institute. Additionally, he is NATO Senior Mentor for Joint Strategic Environment and Joint Logistics & Enablement; and Senior Mentor at NATO Defence College for Negotiation, Mediation and Decision-making Exercise in the Senior Course. His main previous appointments include Director-General of NATO's International Military Staff from 2016 to 2019, Netherlands Military Representative to the NATO & EU Military Committees (2013-2016) and Program Manager Restructuring Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces between 2012 to 2013. LTG Broeks also held several positions at a one-star general level including operational deployment to Afghanistan. MR. ROB DE WIJK Director The Hague Institute for Strategic Studies Rob de Wijk is the founder of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Professor of International Relations and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He studied Contemporary History and International Relations at Groningen University, and wrote his PhD dissertation on NATO’s ‘Flexibility in Response’ strategy at the Political Science Department of Leiden University. Prof. De Wijk started his career in 1977 as a freelance journalist and later became head of the Defense Concepts Department of the Dutch Ministry of Defense, head of the Security Studies at the Clingendael Institute, and Professor of International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy. MR. MARCIN TERLIKOWSKI Head of the International Security Programme Polish Institute for International Affairs Marcin Terlikowski is the Head of the International Security Programme. Between 2007 and 2013, he was an analyst within this programme. His research area includes EU Common Security and Defence Policy, defense-industrial policies in Europe, military capabilities development in EU, NATO and regional formats, EU operations and military missions, cyberdefense policy in NATO. He co-led research projects, financed by EU and Norway Grants. He holds Ph.D in economics (Warsaw School of Economics) and a Masters Degree in international relations (Warsaw University). He speaks fluent English and German. MR. CHRISTIAN LIFLANDER Head of Cyberdefence NATO HQ Christian-Marc Lifländer serves as the senior cyber policy official of NATO’s International Staff. As head of the Cyber Defence Section, he is responsible for leading the development and implementation of cyber defence policy across NATO. Before joining NATO, Mr. Lifländer held executive and senior advisory level positions within the Estonian Ministry of Defence, including Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Defence Policy, Director of Policy Planning, and Adviser to the Minister of Defence. Mr. Lifländer also served as a Defence Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in the United States and as a Defence Counselor at the Delegation of the Republic of Estonia to NATO. Mr. Lifländer received a direct commission in the Estonian Defense Forces (Infantry) and has been awarded the Estonian Defence Forces Distinguished Service Decoration as well as Distinguished Service Decorations of the Estonian Ministry of Defence. Mr. Lifländer received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He received his Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies (CSS) in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. BRIGADIER GENERAL MARIA BIANK J-6, Cyber/C4 US European Command BG Maria A. Biank assumed duties as the United States European Command J6/Deputy J3 Cyber on 13 July 2018. BG Biank earned a regular Army commission as a Signal Officer through the ROTC program at The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. BG Biank’s initial assignment was in Germany from 1991- 1994 where she held the positions of Signal Communications Platoon Leader, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery (HAWK), 32d Army Air Defense Command (AADCOM), and Platoon Leader, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion, 32d AADCOM (later 413th Signal Company, 94th ADA Brigade, 32d AADCOM). From 1995-2002, she served as Assistant Operations Officer (S3) and Commander, Delta Company, 51st Signal Battalion (Airborne), 35th Signal Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, NC; S6, 524th Military Intelligence Battalion, 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, Yongsan, Korea; Action Officer, G6, Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, VA; and Intern, eArmyU program, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Manpower and Reserve Affairs with simultaneous duty as a White House Social Aide. From 2003-2006, BG Biank was assigned as the Deputy G6, 4th Infantry Division, Tikrit, Iraq; Executive Officer, 13th Signal Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Baghdad, Iraq; and Deputy G6, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX and during Operations Katrina and Rita. In 2006, she served as the Executive Assistant to the Director, Defense Information Systems Agency and Commander, Joint Task Force Global Network Operations, Arlington, VA. From 2008-2011, she served as the G6, 3rd Infantry Division, Tikrit, Iraq and Fort Stewart, GA; followed by an assignment on the 37th CSA’s transition team and the Army Staff, G3/5/7 LandWarNet Division, Washington, DC. From 2012-2014, she commanded the 93rd Signal Brigade, Fort Eustis, VA, responsible for 34 Army Network Enterprise Centers east of the Mississippi River. After command, BG Biank was assigned to Fort Meade,